Elif Shafak
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Author, Novelist, Storyteller , Reader, Human Rights , Feminist, Introvert, Citizen of Humanity 📚🌈 On Substack, not on this platform
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Elif Shafak
A recent YouGov poll found that 40% of Britons have not read a book in the last year. “The literary era has come to an end,” Philip Roth prophesied in 2000. “The evidence is the culture, the evidence is the society, the evidence is the screen.” Roth believed that the habit of mind that literature required was bound to disappear. People would no longer have the concentration or the isolation needed to read novels. Several studies seem to support Roth’s conclusion.
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2 months ago |
ft.com | Elif Shafak
Humour is no laughing matter in Turkey, it is a mechanism for coping with stress and suppression. It carries a deep well of melancholy.
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2 months ago |
audible.com | Susie Dumond |Elif Shafak |Gina Balibrera |Kira Jane Buxton
Few literary devices intrigue and engage quite like a unique narrative perspective. Even if an arc feels familiar, the introduction of a new lens can shift the story's impact entirely. If you're looking for stories that can help you look at the world in a new way, tune into one of these audiobooks with nonhuman narrators and protagonists. We've got stories written from the perspectives of animals, plants, robots, inanimate objects, and even former humans.
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2 months ago |
newstatesman.com | Elif Shafak
We do not leave our motherlands behind, even when we are miles and continents away from them. We carry their voices and memories with us everywhere we go; they seep into our dreams, emerge in our novels, speak through our silences.
Author Elif Shafak, once put on trial for 'insulting Turkishness', warns of crackdown on free speech
2 months ago |
heart.co.uk | Elif Shafak
"When history takes a darker turn, it always starts with the omission of words." Your browser doesn't recognise available video formats. Award-winning Turkish author Elif Shafak sat down with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on The World podcast to talk about her latest novel There Are Rivers In The Sky, the parallels she sees between Turkey and America, and what it was like being on trial for "insulting Turkishness".
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